Pictures at an Exhibition - Mussorgsky/Tharp
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- Performed as part of the dedicatory celebration concert marking the completion of the C.B. Fisk, Inc. Opus 145 pipe organ at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Southern Pines, NC, international concert organist Stephen Tharp offers his transcription for organ of one of the world's most loved and colorful works, "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky. Tharp displays his unbelievable virtuosity in this live performance, declaring, "this is the best and most flexible Fisk of its size I've ever encountered!"
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)
-Promenade (walking through the exhibit)
-Gnomus (Gnome)
-Promenade
-Il Vecchio Castello (The Old Castle)
-Promenade
-Tuileries (children quarreling after play)
-Bydlo (Oxen)
-Promenade
-Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells
-Two Polish Jews, One Rich, the Other Poor
-Promenade
-Limoges, The Market Place
-Catacombae: Speculum Romanum (the violence and poetry of darkness)/
Con Mortuis in Lingua Mortua (With the Dead in a Dead Language)
-Baba Yaga: The Witch on Foul’s Legs - cadenza by Jean Guillou
-The Great Gate of Kiev
(Transcribed for organ by Stephen Tharp)\
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Outstanding!
Lovely performance and Stephen’s shirt is just dashing 🤩
Of course the piece was originally for piano, but maybe this version is based on the orchestral version by Ravel? Slightly misleading description, probably not intentionally so.